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The University of Nicosia, famous for becoming the first university to accept bitcoin payments has introduced a Massive open online course (MOOC) on bitcoin - Introduction to Digital Currencies - starting 20 April 2015.The course content dives into the history of money and comes around the revolutionary solution that bitcoin offers of solving the byzantine generals' problem. Further on the discussion continues on basics and use of bitcoin, blockchains and its alternative uses and everything else regarding the bitcoin economy - especially the regulation, relationships with the central banks around the world, taxation issues and alternatives to bitcoin. To round it off, the discussion goes into the exploding space around the ever-emerging innovations around bitcoin and its use in the developing world - which especially relevant for early adopters and users in Africa.

This is the third time this course is being offered. Considering that bitcoin is still a new technology, this is an opportunity to get a full understanding of what it means and the opportunities it holds.

Am a bitcoin user myself. Leave me a comment below on what you think about bitcoin.Sources and relevant links:

Its a heartache enough living far away in a foreign country without the extra headache of paying huge money transfer fees to help relatives and friends in a developing country. This is the motivation for a research project into the use and adoption of bitcoin in East Africa.

In Uganda, bitcoin is already being used and accepted by individual young people and here is BitcoinFilm video of how its working.

Please leave comments on how you're using Bitcoins in especially East Africa to pay for goods & services or rather as a savings in a bitcoin wallet

Make sure to 'juice up' or load a substantial amount of airtime on your MTN mobile phone before you travel away from home to Europe. A 'substantial amount' should be about Uganda shillings 5,000/= and above.